MEXICAN FOREIGN MINISTER, IOWA STATE ALUMNUS RETURNS TO ISU AS MANATT-PHELPS
LECTURE IN POLITICAL SCIENCE ON NOV. 3

AMES, Iowa -- Luis Ernesto Derbez, secretary of foreign affairs for Mexico
and an alumnus of Iowa State University, will present the second
Manatt-Phelps Lecture in Political Science.

Derbez, who graduated with a Ph.D. in economics in 1980, will speak on
U.S./Mexico trade policies and immigration issues affecting both countries
at 8 p.m. Monday, Nov. 3, in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union. The
lecture is free and open to the public.

Derbez previously served as Mexico's economic minister. He also spent 14
years with the World Bank, where he was responsible for the regional areas
of Chile, Western and Central Africa, India, Nepal and Bhutan.

While with the World Bank, Derbez directed, implemented and supervised
multilateral economic assistance and structural adjustment programs in
Chile, Costa Rica, Honduras and Guatemala.

Derbez also served as an independent consultant for the World Bank's Mexico
City office and the Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, D.C. He
also worked on economic recovery programs for Honduras and Nicaragua after
Hurricane Mitch destroyed a substantial part of their territories and
economies.

Thomas and Elizabeth Phelps and Charles and Kathleen Manatt established the
annual Manatt-Phelps Lecture in Political Science. The lectures focus on
significant developments in the international political economy that have
occurred during the
previous year. The lectures also address how the issues affect and are
affected by Iowa.

The Manatts and Phelpses also have established the Manatt-Phelps Endowed
Chair in International Political Economy in Iowa State's department of
political science.

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EDITOR'S NOTE: A news conference with Derbez will be at 2 p.m. Monday,
Nov. 3, in the Campanile Room of the Memorial Union. For more information,
contact David Gieseke at (515) 294-7742.